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Chellomedia buys MGM’s international channels
Chellomedia has acquired Hollywood studio MGM’s international channels, adding over 40 million homes to its…
EBU and VRT launch MPEG-DASH trial
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Belgian broadcaster VRT have used the London Olympics to…
Cisco completes NDS acquisition
Cisco has completed the acquisition of TV software company NDS. Cisco paid approximately $5 billion…
Now TV launches on Apple devices
Now TV, BSkyB’s new online platform, is now available on iPhones and iPads. The streaming…
Global IPTV subscribers to triple
Global IPTV subscribers will triple between now and the end of 2017, driven in particular…
Google pushes back media streamer launch
Google has pushed back the launch of its planned Nexus Q media player, which is…
CME sees revenues fall
Central and eastern European broadcaster Central European Media Enterprises (CME) saw revenues fall 15% as…
Icahn sells out of MGM, studio preps IPO
Carl Icahn has sold his stake in MGM, clearing the way for the Hollywood studio…
Tough times for Mediaset’s pay and ad businesses
Revenues from Mediaset’s pay TV platform declined slightly during the first half of the year….
Apple adds Hulu Plus to Apple TV
Apple has added the Hulu Plus subscription service to its Apple TV device in the…
ViewSat chooses Harmonic headend
UK satellite service provider ViewSat has installed a digital video headend from Harmonic to deliver…
Thomson Video Networks enhances NetProcessor
Video compression specialist Thomson Video Networks has launched a new version of its NetProcessor 9030/40…
MTIS adds Viasat Sport
Belarusian service provider MTIS has dropped the CHL (Continental Hockey League) channel, replacing it with…
VimpelCom names Moscow technology chief
Russian quad-play service provider VimpelCom has named Sergey Bauman as technology director for its Moscow…
Broadcast TV should be delivered via the internet, say UK peers
A new report from the UK’s House of Lords has called for TV services to…
Hans Holger Albrecht leaving MTG; Jørgen Madsen named new CEO
Hans Holger Albrecht is leaving the Modern Times Group after twelve years at the helm…
BBC iPlayer sets Olympic record
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games has set the record for the most number…
Amazon’s LoveFilm inks Miramax deal
LoveFilm has inked a deal with movie distributor Miramax giving the Amazon-owned service’s customers in…
Set-top market to reach €12 billion this year, report says
The overall set-top box market, including cable, satellite, IP and hybrid set-tops, will grow modestly…
Viacom launching new Comedy Central channel in the Adriatic
Viacom’s international channels division will launch Comedy Central Extra across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia,…
Telekom Slovenia drops Viasat channels
Telekom Slovenia has removed a number of Viasat channels from its SiOL TV platform. The…
Video services increase Eutelsat revenues
Sustained growth from Eutelsat’s video applications business helped the satellite operator increase full year revenues…
Shareholders reduce stake in Ziggo
Shareholders of Dutch cable operator Ziggo have sold a further 14.5% stake in the company…
Dimetis’s Boss Stream Viewer supports Dolby standards
Dimetis’s Boss Stream Viewer, a software based multi viewer for monitoring and analysis of video…
Ono hoping TiVo will prevent pay TV decline
Ono had attracted 34,000 TiVo customers by the end of June, eight months after the…
Romtelecom and Cosmote launch TV app
Romanian pay TV operators Romtelecom and Cosmote have rolled out an application that allows broadband…
KPN makes online TV service available on smartphones
Dutch telco KPN is making its online TV service available on smartphones within subscribers’ households….
MTG buys Swedish communications operator
The Modern Times Group has acquired control of Swedish open access communications operator Zitius. No…
Brightcove acquires HTML5 specialist Zencoder
Online video specialist Brightcove has acquired cloud-based encoding company and HTML5 video player provider Zencoder….
CNN boss Jim Walton resigns
Jim Walton, the president of CNN Worldwide, has resigned. He said that CNN needs new…